I want to use below code to start the apache-tomcat,
#!/bin/bash
DUMPSPATH='/home/tomcat/dumps'
export CATALINA_OPTS='-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:ErrorFile=$DUMPSPATH/hs_err_pid%p.log -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=$DUMPSPATH'
/opt/apache-tomcat-6.0.36/bin/startup.sh
Just wanted to check if DUMPSPATH variable is used correctly in export statement or should DUMPSPATH be enclosed in curly brackets or parenthesis?
If you want the content of DUMPSPATH in CATALINA_OPTS (see Variable Substitution) you have to use doublequotes not single quote:
export CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:ErrorFile=$DUMPSPATH/hs_err_pid%p.log -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=$DUMPSPATH"